Workshop Exercises Playbook

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These workshop exercises are part of the Workshop Patterns printed card deck.

A collection of workshop exercises that will help you ditch dull meetings and facilitate with confidence. It will help you master the design process and have more productive time with your team. The card deck will be ready for purchase in the end of 2025 and is now undergoing rigorous testing.

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Assumptions Collection

Reflect on what you know and what you still need to understand

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Business Model Mapping

Build a refined and shared understanding of an existing or new business model

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Circles of Influence

Identify key areas of influence and develop strategies to maximize impact

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Empathy Mapping

Understand user and customer motivations by examining their actions and beliefs

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Fishbone Diagram

Visualize and sort causes to uncover solutions

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Five Whys

Analyze and understand the root cause of a problem or issue

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Force Field Analysis

Analyze the pressures for and against change

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Force Field Network

Analyze root causes by recursively applying Force Field Analysis

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Hopes and Fears

Remove the tension and uncertainty of a new challenge

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Impact Mapping

Connect deliverables to goals through their impacts and actors

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Journey Mapping

Map the experience a user has interacting with a product

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Market of Skills

Let each member share how they and others can contribute to team effort

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Opportunity Solution Tree Mapping

Map how product features are linked to customer research and desired outcomes

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Prototype Persona

Craft specific archetypical profiles of who you are designing for and why

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Service Blueprint

Map the processes that drive an experience

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Thinking Hats

Force one of several perspectives upon a group to focus its discussions

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Skills Star Mapping

Uncover skills and opportunities for learning and growth

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Stakeholder Mapping

Manage your relationships deliberately

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Starbursting

Focus on generating questions rather than providing instant answers

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Touchpoint Mapping

Identify customer touchpoints to improve the entire funnel

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User Story Mapping

Understand and visualize the user journey collaboratively

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Value Proposition Mapping

Define what outcomes customers can gain and benefit from using your product

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Why-How Laddering

Challenge the level and focus of an initial design question

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WiiFM

Understand and align a group by relating and sharing their motivations

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Adjacency Matrix

Find hidden relationships between features and functional areas

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Behavioral Empathy Mapping

Understand user and customer motivations behaviorally

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Behavioral Journey Mapping

Map behavioral barriers and enablers in a user experience

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Competition Radar

Plotting your path in a crowded market

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Drag & Drive Mapping

Identify what supports or blocks goal achievement

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Funnel Mapping

Analyzes customer funnels to pinpoint and enhance areas of future growth

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Magic Object

Let participants design their jobs to be done

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Magic Wanding

Remove constraints that hinder participants' divergent thinking when co-creating

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User Story Assumptions Mapping

Discover critical assumptions by visualizing the user journey

Important for this playbook

Finding solutions to problems often involves digging deeper than the most obvious issues and understanding the root causes. These exercises are designed to help you apply critical and analytical thinking to reveal the true nature of your problems.

Problem-solving often begins with finding the right problem, and sometimes, this might not be the most obvious one. These exercises prompt you to deconstruct the problem to its most foundational components and build understanding from the ground up.

They can help you peel back the layers of your problem, moving from surface-level proximal causes to the root cause. The exercises in this category aid you in understanding and addressing not just the immediate problem but also the second and third-order implications, thus paving the way for more comprehensive solutions.

By gaining a thorough understanding of the problem you’re trying to solve, you lay a robust foundation for further steps in the problem-solving journey, creating room for innovative and sustainable solutions.

These workshop exercises are part of the Workshop Patterns printed card deck.

A collection of workshop exercises that will help you ditch dull meetings and facilitate with confidence. It will help you master the design process and have more productive time with your team. The card deck will be ready for purchase in the end of 2025 and is now undergoing rigorous testing.

Reserve your deck!

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